Month: June 2019

Exploring Sexuality in Medieval Times through Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bathe Prologue & Tale”

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Exploring Sexuality in Medieval Times through Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bathe Prologue & Tale”

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale gives readers a look into the misogyny of medieval times and explores the role of women within the theme of sexuality. The ideas the Wife of Bath has about virginity, marriage, sex and power are ahead of their time and encourage equal power between men and women.

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The Most Happy Feminist Witch

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The Most Happy Feminist Witch

The lovely Natalie Grueniger, host of the “Talking Tudors”, gave me the honor of posting the following article I wrote on her website.
This article was originally an essay I wrote for a class on the Tudors in cultutre and contemporary literature which I took in university. It addresses the feminism and controversy surrounding Philippa Gregory’s best-selling novel, “The Other Boleyn Girl”.

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